Parenting
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@mariner4life yep same with Miss 11.
No recollection also, too much screen time was another trigger for her.
There were a couple of times we fully expected her head to spin around, very scary times.
Sometimes we could guide her back to bed and she would get in and stay until morning.
Edit: typing my reply on phone @Snowy got it
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Found it...
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I'm with Mrs TA in that you shouldn't always trust the science, I had bad insomnia for years, but found watching old sitcoms has me to sleep pretty much within 15 minutes. It might be a bad way to fall alseep but it's better than being awake all night.
Agree with that, however it's the other 8 hours a day she spends on the iPad that get me. First thing in the morning, and every spare minute thereafter.
Better off putting one of those hours into physical activity.
Also: bros before hoes.
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
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My guy had a condescending attitude and a uniform, so I remember him as a cop.
Jeez, can you imagine that job? Having to be driven around by 15-17yo's every day, with little to no control on the car, ability to survive, etc. My heart wouldn't take it, and I'd get fired for saying some honest truths to them. Fark that.
That’s parenting material right there....
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I had an ex-staff member who's daughter failed a few times in her home area. Apparently they were more lenient in another area 20 minutes down the road, so she went and got it first time
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I had an ex-staff member who's daughter failed a few times in her home area. Apparently they were more lenient in another area 20 minutes down the road, so she went and got it first time
I think from what she said they have all the warmth and friendliness of an undertaker. Not exactly encouraging.....
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I had an ex-staff member who's daughter failed a few times in her home area. Apparently they were more lenient in another area 20 minutes down the road, so she went and got it first time
I think from what she said they have all the warmth and friendliness of an undertaker. Not exactly encouraging.....
Probably need to ask around, find an area with higher pass rate
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I had an ex-staff member who's daughter failed a few times in her home area. Apparently they were more lenient in another area 20 minutes down the road, so she went and got it first time
I think from what she said they have all the warmth and friendliness of an undertaker. Not exactly encouraging.....
Probably need to ask around, find an area with higher pass rate
or maybe it's a good thing she's not on the road
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I had an ex-staff member who's daughter failed a few times in her home area. Apparently they were more lenient in another area 20 minutes down the road, so she went and got it first time
I think from what she said they have all the warmth and friendliness of an undertaker. Not exactly encouraging.....
Probably need to ask around, find an area with higher pass rate
or maybe it's a good thing she's not on the road
It has always surprised me how hard the test is now, considering how many shitty drivers are out there.
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@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I'm sure that's the story she tells. The rest of us are better off not having the likes of her handed licences.
Driving is a skill and with the amount of safety, both passive and active, engineered into vehicles these days, a diminishing one.
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I think from what she said they have all the warmth and friendliness of an undertaker. Not exactly encouraging.....
The guy that did my motorbike licence was bloody hilarious. Cheesy cop moustache, looked like an extra from "Chips" was supposed to follow me around on his cop bike and then pass or fail me, but I lost him after a few minutes. Rode around on my own for while then went back to the cop shop. He just started laughing and handed me the "pass" slip.
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@antipodean said in Parenting:
@taniwharugby I'm talking about the need to take a full license driving test, and also the contracting out of the testing to the AA and the introduction of the plastic photo license used for ID to buy alcohol. That was 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Friends of my parents have a daughter ( probably in her early 30s now ) who won't drive purely cos she has failed the practical so many times. Apparently they nitpick everything these days.
I'm sure that's the story she tells. The rest of us are better off not having the likes of her handed licences.
Driving is a skill and with the amount of safety, both passive and active, engineered into vehicles these days, a diminishing one.
By the sounds of it some of you older buggers need to be re-tested
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By the sounds of it some of you older buggers need to be re-tested
Fuck that, we're the ones with the skills. Some young punk testing me in a vehicle with traction control, launch systems, ABS, automatic parking. You don't even drive, the bloody car does it.
I will teach you to drive old school it you like?
That will involve a 1970's car. Any one of the shit heaps will do. They were all manual, gutless, wouldn't go around corners (as @Bones said, we had to straighten them out), brakes didn't work, just sort of had a slowing down affect before the crash.
There will be a lot of shouting, which I know you kids don't like. When do we start?
You really shouldn't have told me that you were a millennial. Bloody kids these days, mutter, mutter...
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My first car was a 1982 Daihatsu Charade, bought in around 2001 after getting my restricted. Wrote it off after crashing on a sharp corner on a Frosty Foggy morning the day after Queen's Birthday.
Got my Learners Licence after second test (failed verbal) Got my restricted on third test, My main problem was nerves. I sat on my restricted for over ten years. I did a one day course seven years ago and passed for my full licence test first time.
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@mikedogz hah I sat on my restricted for about 4 or 5 years I think after getting it at 17.
Failed for my first go at it - jumped the kerb on the corner right at the start outside Hutt cop shop.
Full I had to do a test I'd waited so long but booked it for like 7am on a Monday in Welly city. Almost zero traffic around it was classic.
